I think that I get pigeonholed sometimes into just the arts&crafts priest, the I just want to sit in camping chairs priest and not do any...

My job as your young adult missioner takes me all over Fredericksburg, into all kinds of wild spaces and into relationship with all kinds...

Among the many practices of Ignatian spirituality, is the practice of using one's imagination to place oneself in a story of scripture so...

I preached a sermon a few weeks ago at Trinity Episcopal Church about how all summer long I felt like Jesus on the mountain by himself --...

In our Gospel reading last week, Jesus headed off for some introvert time, he literally got into a boat and paddled out in the middle of...

In my first year of seminary, I took a class called Intro to Worship, and instead of diving straight into the prayer book, we spent the...

There is a mode of thinking in some Christian traditions that sets them apart from other Christian traditions, and it has to do with how...

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving two workshops at the churchwide event for young people called the Episcopal Youth Event....

As a missioner, it's my work to go out among the weeds of the world and try to plant a little bit of wheat. Some priests have a church...

Our young adult bible study has met just about every Wednesday evening for the last almost two years, and in that time, in those dozens...

This weekend is pride weekend in Fredericksburg, which means Old Mill Park and downtown will fill up on Saturday morning and afternoon...

To be quite honest, this wildfire smoke this week has really thrown me off. I lived in Berkeley California through the worst of the...

This weekend the Church celebrated the day of Pentecost, and at The House we celebrated by having church in our backyard for the first...

Happy Pentecost! Pentecost is a fun day for the church because it is celebrated as the Church's birthday, and it holds an interesting...

As part of a seminary education to become a priest, we all were required to take a preaching class (and thank God for it!). And in the...

I don't know what the experience is of the ELCA writ large or of Christ Lutheran in specific, but there is a stereotype among...

It's easy sometimes for our college students to go tunnel-vision on grades and homework and exams and essays. One bad grade or one tough...

Back in my previous church in California, during an adult confirmation class, we set up an instructed Eucharist service -- which if...

In seminary, I read a book from the 1960s by an Episcopal priest named Gibson Winter, wherein among the many things he says, he says that...

Written for Christ Lutheran Church's weekly newsletter, March 7, 2023. Over the weekend, one of the churches that supports our...